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Some analysts talk about currency wars, others emphasize the acute problem of disinflation on trying to explain the process of cutting rates by central banks around the world. The fact is that we have eight years of monetary easing and much probably this process will continue the next two others. This year 24 central banks...

Whiting Petroleum Corp, Oasis Petroleum, Apache Corp, EnCana, Devon Energy Corp, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are only a few of the big names of shale oil sector in north America. These are some of the names that have given a boost to the fall of the price of oil. Only in America there are 75 shale-focused...

The so called BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) this time seems to take seriously. These countries have agreed to build a New Development and Investment International Bank. This new institution will be ready to operate within the end of this year. Its headquarters will be in Shanghai and the potential of this...

The question that many investors could make to them self is: Why so late? Why for last? In fact the other major central banks Fed, Boj, BoE, have launched similar QE many years ago and some of them has already finished the process creating millions of jobs. Let’s hope that the saying of Jesus: Blessed...

Not by much the economic and financial newspapers were talking about India’s biggest problem: the electricity. This has been for long time a key issue for Indian’s economy. Nowadays, newspapers are talking about the miracle of Indian’s economy. The economic growth for the past year was 7.5 % against China’s 7.3 %. For the next...

We had to wait fifteen years to see another time the Nasdaq to touch the 5.000 points level. Few analysts would have imagined that the Nasdaq would take so much time to reach again this historic level. Now the question is: What ought to think the investors? May be they have to be afraid? In...

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